LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hunt's Gun and Projectile for Effecting Communication With Wrecked Vessels
IN the last number of this Journal we described an ingenious American invention for night-signalling, which we conceive would be especially valuable in cases of stranding, or other disaster to trading vessels. "We have now to notice...
Category: Articles
Professo
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — The Two Sisters Life-boat was launched at 5.30 on the evening of the 2nd October, to the assistance of the brig Professo, of Tvedestrand, Norway, bound from Sundswall for Ramsey, with a cargo of timber. She was lying...
Pearl, of Shoreham
A vessel was seen from this place on the 14th February, apparently unmanageable, and showing sig- nals of distress. Soon afterwards she ran ashore at the east side of Rye Harbour. It was blowing strong from W.S.W., and there was a heavy sea...
Life-Saving and the United States Coast Guard
MARITIME safety in the United States took a giant step forward on the 28th of January, 1915, when two historic agencies, the Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service, were merged into a single organization known as the United States...
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Carl Rosinius
NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—The Life-boat Sandal Magna was launched at 9 P.M. on the 10th February, in a very heavy sea and a strong S.S.B. wind, and rescued the crew, consisting of ten men, from the brigantine Carl Rosinius, of aad from Hangesuud for...
M.F.V. Gratitude
MFV sinks MFV GRATITUDE, on passage from Lerwick to Macduff, sent a MAYDAY distress call at 0133 on Sunday April 24 to say that she had struck rock at Sumburgh Head; she was still afloat but needed immediate help. Shetland Coastguard...
Ronnie Charms the Crowds
Celebrity Ronnie Corbett was the guest of honour at North Sunderland's lifeboat fete, held on 25 August.
It proved to be a record fundraising day for the hard working local ladies lifeboat guild who were supported by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Landing Craft
AUGUST 29TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.45 P.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat crew should stand by, and at 11.20 P.M. the motor lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched to take out an officer, who was...
Hm Coastguard: the Lifeboatman's Link With the Shore By Geoffrey Pallet
Geoffrey Pallet, editor of Coastguard magazine, describes the service which acts as co-ordinator of all marine search and rescue around the shores of the United Kingdom. He also passes on some useful advice to visitors to the coast.'LATE...
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